Nuremberg
Infamy on Trial
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 1, 1995
"A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg.
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- Who it’s for
- A history of Nuremberg pairing sweeping wartime history with close attention to human motives.
- Themes
- Nuremberg trials, Law and vengeance, Early Cold War tensions
- Genres
- Holocaust History, Genocide & War Crimes, World War II: European Theater
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"A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico easily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials."—New York Newsday The Nuremberg trials remain, after nearly half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes.
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Using new sources—groundbreaking research in the papers of the Nuremberg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of prisoners, and accounts of the judges and prosecutors as they struggled through each day making compromises and steeling their convictions—Joseph Persico retells the story of Nuremberg, combining sweeping history with psychological insight. Here are brilliant, chilling portraits of the Nazi warlords and riveting descriptions of the tensions between law and vengeance, between East and West, of the friction already present in the early stages of the Cold War.
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A history of Nuremberg pairing sweeping wartime history with close attention to human motives.
Come here for
- The uneasy meeting of legal judgment and vengeance
- Psychological portraits of Nazi leaders and those involved in the trials
Expect
- A broad account built from prison papers, letters, journals, and courtroom perspectives
- Tensions between East and West as the Cold War begins
Where it sits
| Holocaust History | 53% |
|---|---|
| World War II: European Theater | 40% |
| Genocide & War Crimes | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- World War II History
- Holocaust History
- Criminology
- Authors
- Joseph E. Persico
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- August 1, 1995
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Nuremberg trials · Law and vengeance · Early Cold War tensions
- Reading lane
- World War II History